The veteran politician swiftly walked out of the ruling coalition led by Pheu Thai's Paetongtarn Shinawatra, made an initial outreach to the main opposition, and stood back to bide his time.
The 58-year-old's rise has been decades in the making, starting with his entry into politics with the Thai Rak Thai party founded by Paetongtarn's billionaire father, Thaksin Shinawatra.
For two election cycles, in 2019 and 2023, pundits floated Anutin's name among those tipped to take on the premiership, most likely seen leading a coalition government given his traction across party lines.
“I am younger, more fresh and I understand politics in a democratic system,“ he told Reuters in 2023, making no bones about his ambition for the top job and expectations for a big win.
Anutin and his party are a rare bridge spanning powerful family clans that dominate provincial politics and sections of the influential royalist-conservative establishment, said Napon Jatusripitak, a visiting fellow at Singapore's ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute.
“Now, he has positioned his own party in a way that places it as the most credible guardian of conservative interest in Thailand.”
High flier
In 1990, he joined his father's construction firm, Sino-Thai, and served as its president before stepping away from the private sector to enter government as deputy minister of public health under Thaksin in 2004.
In the decade since, Anutin has leveraged not only the connections of Bhumjaithai founder Newin Chidchob to shore up provincial support, but also his own influence with the conservative elite to ensure his party's presence in successive governments.
“Bhumjaithai has been part of the government for many, many years, almost in every single cabinet, and usually controls lucrative ministries from which it was able to derive significant patronage that it uses to mobilise supporters on the ground,“ said Napon.
“We know that the People’s Party has cooperated and made sacrifices in finding a solution for Thailand during a period of crises,“ Anutin told reporters on Wednesday, after securing the endorsement.
With Thailand's stuttering economy facing serious headwinds, tensions with neighbouring Cambodia on the knife-edge after a deadly border war and the spectre of further political turmoil, an ability to handle turbulence may prove useful in his new job - REUTERS
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